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    Want to hire and retain high-quality developers? Give them stimulating work – TechCrunch

    Devsquad founder and CEO Phil Alves is an expert entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the tech industry leading product development...

    Don’t miss the Q&A sessions at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 – TechCrunch

    It’s nearly October, startup fans, and that means TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 is right around the corner. On October 6 & 7, you’ll experience...

    Apple is (temporarily) waiving its App Store fee for Facebook’s online events – TechCrunch

    Last month, Facebook introduced support for paid online events — and because many of the businesses offering those events have struggled during the...

    Alphabet Settles Shareholder Suits Over Sexual Harassment Claims

    “Recent years have involved a lot of introspection and work to make sure we’re providing a safe and inclusive workplace,” Eileen Naughton, vice president...

    HumanForest suspends London e-bike sharing service, cuts jobs after customer accident – TechCrunch

    UK-based startup HumanForest has suspended its nascent ‘free’ e-bike service in London this week, after experiencing “mechanical” issues and after a user had...

    Twitter warns developers that their private keys and account tokens may have been exposed – TechCrunch

    Twitter has emailed developers warning of a bug that may have exposed their private app keys and account tokens. In the email, obtained by TechCrunch,...

    The highest valued company in Bessemer’s annual cloud report has defied convention by staying private – TechCrunch

    This year’s Bessemer Venture Partners’ annual Cloud 100 Benchmark report was published recently and my colleague Alex Wilhelm looked at some broad trends...

    European Commission to appeal decision that reversed Apple’s $15B State Aid tax bill in Ireland – TechCrunch

    It’s not over until it’s over for Apple and its ongoing tax headache in Europe. Today the European Commission announced that it plans to...

    E.P.A. Rejects Its Own Findings That a Pesticide Harms Children’s Brains

    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has rejected scientific evidence linking the pesticide chlorpyrifos to serious health problems, directly contradicting federal scientists’ conclusions five years...

    A Manly Response to Disease

    Unaffected by more recent gender paradigms, the standard of a strong-and-silent masculinity to which these men conform depends upon their upbringing. They are of...

    Cambridge Analytica’s former boss gets 7-year ban on being a business director – TechCrunch

    The former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the disgraced data company that worked for the 2016 Trump campaign and shut down in 2018 over...

    This new Southeast Asian fund has its eye on Chinese cross-border firms – TechCrunch

    As U.S.-China relations remain tense, Southeast Asia becomes the darling for investors and tech companies from both sides as they seek overseas expansion. Behemoths...

    Indonesian cloud kitchen startup Yummy gets $12 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia – TechCrunch

    Yummy Corporation, which claims to be the largest cloud kitchen management company in Indonesia, has raised $12 million in Series B funding, led by...

    Without Evidence, Right-Wing Commentators Link Soros to Louisville U-Haul

    On Wednesday night, as protests formed over a grand jury’s decision not to charge police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor, footage began...

    Google Services Go Down in Some Parts of U.S.

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Google users experienced a widespread service disruption on Thursday evening, including the company’s email, YouTube and Google documents services.The outages seemed...

    Despite Claims, Trump Rarely Uses Wartime Law in Battle Against Covid

    As schools reopen and cold weather heightens the likelihood of a spike in coronavirus cases, nurses and doctors fear that shortages of the respirator...